Jack Black Biography

Thomas Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American film and television actor, as well as a musician, better known as Jack Black.

Black was born in Hermosa Beach, California to a middle-class Jewish family. His parents, Thomas W. Black and Judith C. Cohen, were satellite engineers and members of a naturist group, Family Synergy [1]; they divorced when he was ten. He has a younger sister, Megan Rene, who was born in 1988.
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Doing his teenage years when he was already into acting, he started doing drugs in an atempt to fit in and be "hardcore". He started stealing money from his mother to buy cocaine, but soon realised that he had a problem, and volunteered for therapy.

Black attended Crossroads School and the University of California, Los Angeles; fellow UCLA veteran Tim Robbins later cast him in Bob Roberts, his first film role. Black also had recurring roles on the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show.

Black is perhaps best-known in for starring in two music-oriented comedies: his breakout role in the 2000 film High Fidelity, as an obnoxious music snob who torments his boss, played by John Cusack, and the 2003 hit comedy The School of Rock, in which he played an unemployed rocker who gets his big break by teaching a private school fifth grade class music theory and the history of rock and roll. Black also had a recent starring role as a megalomanical film director in director Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong.

He is often referred to as one of the members of the Frat Pack, a group of comedians active in today's Hollywood films.

Black is the lead singer for the rock comedy band Tenacious D, which perhaps owes much of their popularity to Black's unorthodox, humorous lyrics. Tenacious D's fans often cite his skilled satire of hard rock and metal as much as they do the band's musicianship. Black's singing style is often described as being an odd scat type of music. For example, in the song "Wonderboy", one of his lines is "Rrrigga-gyu-gyu Rrrigga-gyu-gyu", an example of his verbalized guitar solo. This type of singing appears in many Tenacious D songs in place of a melodic or ripping guitar sound. Black has also performed a two-part scat with fellow bandmate Kyle Gass in the song Tribute.

Black has dated actress and comedian Laura Kightlinger for several years. In January 2006, he became engaged to current girlfriend Tanya Haden, whom he has been dating since his split from Kightlinger in 2005.

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